Isabel Rea (born in 1889 in

Coxsackie, New York Coxsackie ( ) is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population in the 2020 census was 8,382, a decrease from the 2010 census. The name of the town is said to be derived from a Native American term, but it has various transl ...

), also sometimes credited as Isabel Rae, was an American

film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ...

of the silent era, specifically the decade of the 1910s. In Daniel Blum's ''A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen'' she is credited in a photograph as Isabel Rea, member of the original

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(IMP) Film Company in 1911, alongside actors such as

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. Further in the book she is credited as Isabel Rae in a photograph for

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. Apart from her work in silent films, little is known of her and her whereabouts after approximately 1918. She died September 14, 1961, in Coxsackie at the age of 72, under the name Isabelle Copleston.

Selected filmography

* '' For the Sunday Edition'' (1910) *''

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'' (1911) * '' The Siren'' * ''

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(1914)

References

Bibliography

* Blum, Daniel. ''A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen''. Wattle Books, 1982.

External links

* 1889 births Year of death missing American film actresses American silent film actresses 20th-century American actresses {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub